AS ROBOTICS AND 3-D printing technologies become more ac... tinkerers, men are (of course) building robots of beauti... who’s turned on a TV in the past decade shouldn’t be... that one of the first—and creepiest—examples of this...
News broke

The self-driving car, that cutting-edge creation that’... to a world without accidents, is achieving the exact opp... The vehicles have racked up a crash rate double that of ...
The glitch?
They obey the law all the time, as in, without exception ...

Handset maker Nokia today announced the creation of an e... called "Nokia Situations" that can automatically adjust ... behavior for various situations and contexts. For exampl... shut off the ringer whenever you go into a meeting, with...
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Jigsaw figures out what you are doing by monitoring your... microphone, GPS and accelerometer for patterns character... activities - and it could be set to send the results to ... sites.
More importantly, Jigsaw can log how active you are each ...

New robotic hand 'can feel'
A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed ...
It has been attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who ...
Researchers say it works by connecting human nerve endin ...

Within ten years some doctors and scientists are predict...
They say by using the natural orifices of the body and t ...
It sounds fantastical, but prototypes are already in exi ...
There are particularly big hopes for Ares (Assembling Re ...
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or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the world’s most advanced “question a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... — “natural language,” as computer scientists call ...
With Watson

Auto makers, on the other hand, now function more like s... Dozens of suppliers provide sub-assemblies, many of whic... own silicon - and those interconnected systems are becom... elaborate.
Can Toyota elevate software quality to the same level th ...

Siri Technology
A New Interaction Paradigm
Virtual Personal Assistants (VPAs) represent the next ge ...
Siri is the first mainstream consumer application of a V ...
... utation in the cloud and small computation in the field.

Berners-Lee's compelling vision of a Semantic Web is hin... chicken-and-egg problem, which can be best solved by a b... method, creating enough structured data to motivate the ... applications. We believe that autonomously `Semantifying...
The Intelli

The Delivery Context Ontology provides a formal model of the characteristics of the environment in which devices inte... or other services. The delivery context includes the cha... the device, the software used to access the service and ...
The deliver

Today's applications become more and more complex, makin... maintain the usability of the interface. User interfaces... complexity and improve the usability of software, but it... possible to satisfy individual user needs. Therefore, us... support too